unetymologically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

unetymological +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

unetymologically (comparative more unetymologically, superlative most unetymologically)

  1. In a way which is not etymological.
    • 2012, Gisela Kaplan, Contemporary Western European Feminism:
      But while women were often not in touch with their own history—what feminists came to call, unetymologically but pertinently, 'herstory'—they were keenly aware of the immediate, oppressive past.